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UNITED STATES PATENT OrrrcE.

AMOS H. JACKSON, OF FREMONT, OHIO.

SHOW-RAC K.

SPECIFICATION forming prt of Letters Patent No. 349,255, dated September1.4, 1886.

Application led August 6, 1885.

ToA all whom it may concern:

-I e it known that I, AMos H. JACKSON, a. citizen of the United Statesof America, residing at Fremont, in the county of Sandusky and State ofOhio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Show-Racks,of which the following is a specification, reference being had thereinto the accompanying drawings. v This invention has for its object theprovision of a sample rack or stand for the convenlent and advantageousdisplay of dry-goods, more' particularly hosiery, shawls, towels, andthe like; and it consists of the combinations of parts, including theirConstruction, substantlally as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of mysample-rack with the suspending-cords broken away, and Fig. 2 is a,detailed plan view of a modification thereof.

In carrying out my invention I employ,

"preferably, a rectangular frame, A, which may be suspended` by ropesa., chains, or other suitable medium connected at the corners of saidframe and at the corners of asecond frame, A', itself suspended bysimilar ropes, a', or other suitable means, which, in practice, areconnected at their upper convergent ends to a common rope passed througha pulley depending The common or single rope will depend withinconvenient reach to be readily reached or grasped for raising orlowering the sample rack or holder. Any number of rods B are passedthrough the frame A and project from all four of its sides. These rodsare arranged in pairs, each pair being connected at its projecting endsupon opposite sidesl of the frame A by a cross or clamp bar, b, througheach of which bars pass two knobbed rods, b', upon which latter the saidbars b slide and are guided, their knobs limiting the 'outward movementof the said bars. rlhe rods B are each made in sections or two parts,arranged end to end, and connected together by a spring, d, preferably acoiled spring. This arrangement renders said rods more or lesseXtensible and their sections automatically contractible holding theircross-bars normally contracted, whereby with the goods or articles-such,for instance, as previously herein named-folded or doubled over or uponeye-rods C, through whose eyes pass the rods b', the said articles orgoods will be clamped in place in such a man- Serial N. 173,761. (Nomodel.)

ner as to permit the convenient and advantageous display of the articlesor goods.

' In lieu of connecting what formerly were the clamp-bar connecting rodsections B by the springs, the latter may be disposed upon theguide-rods b' between said clamp-bars and the knobs or heads of saidguide-rods, as shown in Fig. 2, and the same end be secured.

As many sample holders or racks of the foregoing construction may beused as found necessary, each successiverack or holder being suspendedfrom its fellow in like manner as the one in particular above describedis suspended from its supporting-frame.

In lieu of suspending the sample racks or holders from the ceiling, asabove described, the same may be held upon a revolving stand or uprightframe standing upon the oor or other surface.

Having thus fully described my invention, whatI claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a sample rack or holder,"the frame orsupport having a number ofspring-acted-upon clamp-bars connected by rods passing through theframe, in combination with the knobbed guide-rods and the eye-rods, saideye-rods being secured 011 said knobbed rods, substantial 1y as andforthe purpose set forth.

2. In a sample holder or rack, the combination, with a frame or support,of the clampbars, the connecting-rods, the springs connected to theinner ends of said connecting-rods, and the knobbed gnide-rods passingthrough the frame, said clampbars being connected to and guided by saidknobbed guiderods, sub stantiall y as shown and described.

3. In a sample rack or'holder, the combination, with the frame orsupport, the sectional rods, the springs connecting the sections of saidrods at their inner ends, knobbed guiderods, and clamp-bars arrangedthereon, ofthe eye-rods, through the eyes of which pass the IOO

